Leading people

the stickiness, indicators and solutions of the messiness of interpersonal dynamics

Founder of Clayton homes

2. All complaining comes at the expense of improving.

3. “Positive action produces positive attitudes, which produce a positive atmosphere.”

4. Make your plan conform to the territory, not the other way around. Either work with the world the way you find it, or it will teach you a lesson.

6. “There are 3 kinds of people: those

Leadership: channeling frustration or negativity prompt-

It’s called “I like, I wish, I wonder, what’s next?”

Here’s how it works:

I like → Start with a compliment. “I like how much everyone on this team cares.”

I wish → Reframe the energy. “I wish there was a way we could channel that into moving the needle on the problem.”

I wonder → Open the floor.

Her impact was immediate. Lauren Messier ’25, who is pursuing a professional women’s hockey career following graduation in June, says Crowell transformed the team.

“She came into a pretty broken group of girls with no direction. We had little motivation, and she just lit a spark for us and showed us which direction we wanted to go, and helped us

A Blessing for Our Anger

As we seek to learn from the wisdom our anger has to teach us, Brian McLaren offers this prayer of blessing:

May you be blessed to see in your anger, not just a danger, but an opportunity. May you be blessed to see in your anger a window into what you love. May you be blessed to see in your anger a pathway into sadness. And... See more

All things cry for forgiveness in their imperfection, their incompleteness, their woundedness, their constant movement toward death. Mere rage or resentment will not change any of these realities.

—Richard Rohr

Darkness is a mentor of what it means to carry the light we ourselves have brought to blaze into the unknown parts of life so that others may also see and take hope.

—Joan Chittister

For SEEA staff in these times

Periods of seemingly fruitless darkness may in fact highlight all the ways we rob ourselves of wisdom by clinging to the light. Who grows by only looking on the bright side of things?

—Richard Rohr

What you do may seem insignificant but it’s very important you do it. Gandhi.

Paraphrased I think

Homeboy Industries were the following: 1) Everyone is unshakably good (no exceptions) and 2) We belong to each other (no exceptions

Good starting belief system re other people